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Latter Day Poetry

Cabbages and Kings

Religious and psychological thought are also to be found in modern song:

"Everybodies got troubles, troubles, troubles,

And I got troubles too."

The quest and doom of the intellectual appears:

"I'm beginning to wonder,

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And wonder, I worry

I'm beginning to worry

Yes lately, I worry."

While universal thought and national figures exert an influence upon pop songs, some lyrics seem to stand apart from all literature and philosophy, and emerge as a self-contained and self-explanatory art form:

Darling don't forbid me

To talk sweet talk

Let-a me fill your little heart with fire

'Cause it's cold...."

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